The New H.N.I.C. : The Death of Civil Rights and the Reign of Hip Hop / Todd Boyd.
2003
E185.86 .B649 2002
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The New H.N.I.C. : The Death of Civil Rights and the Reign of Hip Hop / Todd Boyd.
Author
Boyd, Todd, author.
ISBN
9780814709061
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2003]
Copyright
©2003
Language
English
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In English.
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10.18574/nyu/9780814709061.001.0001 doi
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E185.86 .B649 2002
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.4840973
Summary
When Lauryn Hill stepped forward to accept her fifth Grammy Award in 1999, she paused as she collected the last trophy, and seeming somewhat startled said, "This is crazy, 'cause this is hip hop music.'" Hill's astonishment at receiving mainstream acclaim for music once deemed insignificant testifies to the explosion of this truly revolutionary art form. Hip hop music and the culture that surrounds it-film, fashion, sports, and a whole way of being-has become the defining ethos for a generation. Its influence has spread from the state's capital to the nation's capital, from the Pineapple to the Big Apple, from 'Frisco to Maine, and then on to Spain. But moving far beyond the music, hip hop has emerged as a social and cultural movement, displacing the ideas of the Civil Rights era. Todd Boyd maintains that a new generation, having grown up in the aftermath of both Civil Rights and Black Power, rejects these old school models and is instead asserting its own values and ideas. Hip hop is distinguished in this regard because it never attempted to go mainstream, but instead the mainstream came to hip hop.The New H.N.I.C., like hip hop itself, attempts to keep it real, and challenges conventional wisdom on a range of issues, from debates over use of the "N-word," the comedy of Chris Rock, and the "get money" ethos of hip hop moguls like Sean "P. Diddy" Combs and Russell Simmons, to hip hop's impact on a diverse array of figures from Bill Clinton and Eminem to Jennifer Lopez.Maintaining that Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech is less important today than DMX's It's Dark and Hell is Hot, Boyd argues that Civil Rights as a cultural force is dead, confined to a series of media images frozen in another time. Hip hop, on the other hand, represents the vanguard, and is the best way to grasp both our present and future.
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
Introduction. Who We Be: Introducin' the New H.N.I.C.
1. No Time for Fake Niggas
2. Brothas Gonna Work It Out
3. Can't Knock the Hustle
4. Head Nigga in Charge
Epilogue
Selected Bibliography
Glossary of Hip Hop Terms
Shout Outs
Index
About the Author
Contents
Preface
Introduction. Who We Be: Introducin' the New H.N.I.C.
1. No Time for Fake Niggas
2. Brothas Gonna Work It Out
3. Can't Knock the Hustle
4. Head Nigga in Charge
Epilogue
Selected Bibliography
Glossary of Hip Hop Terms
Shout Outs
Index
About the Author